Our knifepoint ordeal by airport boss and his wife

AIRPORTS boss Sir Nigel Rudd told yesterday how masked thugs robbed him and his wife at knifepoint after breaking into their £7million mansion.

Sir Nigel Rudd said the gang pushed a carving knife into his stomach []

Sir Nigel, 63, said the gang pushed a carving knife into his stomach and screamed four-letter abuse.

The robbers struck after following the couple into the terraced property in London’s Belgravia at around 11pm on May 23, 2011.

Sir Nigel, chairman of Heathrow operator Heathrow Airport Holdings, said they took £84,000 worth of jewellery and other valuables, including a £10,000 Cartier watch torn from Lady Rudd’s wrist. He told Southwark Crown Court in central London that he realised they were being robbed when he heard his wife screaming from the kitchen.

Lady Rudd, 64, told the court in a statement that she feared for her life.

The raid is said to be one of four carried out by Gulam Gani, 47, Nicholas Lewis, 34, and Shaun Wallace, 30.

Gani, of White City, west London, Lewis, of, Romford, Essex, and Wallace, of Latimer Road, west London deny conspiracy to rob, Lewis denies a second robbery charge.

Lady Rudd, 64, told the court in a statement that she feared for her life